Tuesday, April 3, 2012

MUCH AS I FEARED THEY MIGHT, THE BASTARDS AT MEDIAFIRE JUST REMOVED ALL OF THE CONTENT THAT I'VE RE-UPPED TO THEIR SITE OVER THESE LAST WEEKS (I.E. ALL OF THE CONTENT THAT HAD BEEN DOWN FROM THE PREVIOUS MEGAUPLOAD SHUTDOWN DATING FROM MARCH 2011 FORWARD) AS OF EARLIER TODAY. AS IT HAPPENS, BASED UPON THE POSSIBILITY OF JUST SUCH AN EVENTUALITY, I'VE BEEN IN THE PROCESS OF RE-UPPING THIS VERY SAME CONTENT TO RAPIDSHARE, WITH THE MAJORITY OF THOSE TO DEBUT CIRCA TOMORROW NIGHT. THUS, LINKS TO THIS NEWLY DOWNED CONTENT WILL BE BACK UP AND SHORTLY, AS WILL, RELATIVELY SOON, ALL THE OTHER DOWNED CONTENT FROM THE MEGAUPLOAD DEBACLE AND ALL OF IT NOW TO BE SHARED VIA RAPIDSHARE ALONE, GIVEN THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALL OTHER VIABLE OPTIONS. EVEN WITH THE TIL NOW RELIABLE RAPIDSHARE, I WILL NOW OPT TO USE ONLY INITIALS TO IDENTIFY MY FILES FROM NOW ON WITH ALL THE FUTURE TITLES THAT I UPLOAD WITH THEM (BEYOND THOSE THAT I'VE ALREADY UPLOADED TO THEIR SITE WITH FULL NAMES EARLIER THIS WEEK). GIVEN THEIR SWISS LOCATION, ALL SHOULD STILL BE OKAY WITH THEM, BUT THIS CONTENT POLICING IS GETTING FUCKING RIDICULOUS AND YOU CAN'T BE TO CAUTIOUS NOW.

ANYWAY, EXPECT RE-UPS OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED CONTENT BY TOMORROW AND NEW POSTS BY THURSDAY OR FRIDAY, DEPENDING ON HOW FRIED I AM FROM CONTENDING WITH ALL THIS BS.

I cannot believe this. Having to constantly re-up content you just finished salvaging must be absurdly frustrating and soul-crushing. Thanks for not giving up and continuing to fight the good fight. I love the work you do for mutantsounds.

Hello, VDO. When using bittorrent you don't depend on any crappy cyber-locker. Maintaining of your posts wouldn't be your problem anymore, but depends entirely on your readers. Imho, it's the best solution to save the archives of this wonderful blog. Thank you for the new posts.

Thank you for not giving up! This blog is awesome and I would hate to see it die.

May I recommend for the future, instead of hosting all your files on a single provider (MU, MF, and now RS), you should use multiple providers simultaneously in order to distribute your risk. For instance, I recommend mirrorcreator.com and sharebee.com as a means of uploading a single file to many filehosting sites at once. Much safer :)

surprisingly, my meager cache of files still exists at mediafire, thought this was another case of megupload burn, don't know why yours would have been burned but it does seem to be happening every now & then with mediafire as some other blogs have had theirs removed also,keep up the good workk though, please & thanks flor all the great obscure stuff,Torch

I agree with you all this thing is so fukin fukin crazy and who let get us to this situation i do not know!We are only dealing download with th eclear intent and pleasure to LISTEN TO MUSIC THAT IS HARD TO GET and so all these shut down from host site is really a comic thing : how still we have to battle into this thing for a pure SPIRITUAL PLEASURE.

i feel your pain brother. Mediafire dumped 2.5 year's worth of files i had uploaded there - even the files of my OWN music vanished! a week later Blogspot took down my blog, even the non-music related posts, * poof * gone, like it never existed... this crackdown is absolutely ridiculous.keep on keepin' on,**e d o **formerly of knowyourconjurer.blogspot.com, soon to be: knowyourconjurer.com

rapidshare isn't that great of an option anymore. they're throttling download speed for free users in an attempt to divert "piracy" to other fileshare sites. files that used to take only a few minutes now can take up to an hour to download. fileserve and wupload have now gone the route of filesonic after paramount pictures recently published their 5 most wanted list:

jumbofiles is as fast as mediafire with no wait time or captchas, but we'll have to see how long before they cave in to hollywood pressure. all of this is just going to drive everyone to torrents, and tor/onion... and don't forget the upcoming ip server clampdowns:

By enabling people discover music they probably would never have heard of otherwise, music blogs multiply the oportunities of buying records. It helps lesser known artists to be discovered. Simple equation : how could one buy something one does'nt know it exists ? 99% of the records I buy were downloaded before. Mighty respects for your dedication.

rapidshare is from switzerland not austria! they are deleting files too..not only reported files..they suck too.. slowed down for free members..will make more money with paying members, thanks swiss you need the money

P2P. Jumping from one legally beleaguered drop box to another is a waste of time. Filesharing will have to be done via open source, decentralised networks. Bittorrent, P2P networks, etc. with rips announced on blogs hosted not by Google.

Btw my computer lately has been blocking sharebee links, saying sharebee has been reported as an 'attack site'. No idea if this is true or just a scare to try to keep traffic away. Certainly some of these file sharing services are suspicious with all the pop-ups and other weirdness. RS has generally been good, but the recent speed-throttling mentioned above is a pain - most times the download siezes up part way through and will not pick up where it left off. Spending an hour or more trying to get one file then having to start over (after the waiting period has elapsed) is a mega pain. But, can't complain given the way things are generally these days...Keep up the good work MS!

As for the time being i'm searching for resource material i would appreciate any scans or photocopies of late 70's/early 80s fanzines on experimental/industrial/punk/DIY stuff.Especially i would appreciate photocopied issues of:AURA,FACE OUT,FOOLS MATE(******) NEWSTYLE(esp.Nr 10)ATEM magazine,AUDION magazine,Grohinga Well(or something like that,Belgian magazine).If you can provide any of this stuff please contact me.